shows

Instructions For A Better Life

Instructions for a better life was all about us, everyone that is, thinking that something is true when it isn’t. It’s a true story.

It’s a look at what people believe without question and an attempt to unpick the oddity of what we think we think.

Part thriller, part comedic romp through human psychology, Uncanny Theatre stretch logic to breaking point in a show that’s visually arresting and absurdly funny in all of its low-tech glory.

The rules are simple, and with a little luck you’ll be all right. Then again, why should you believe us?

Our second show was our attempt to explore the ways in which individuals accept ideas as fact without scrutiny. The thought that once a source of information is trusted it no longer needs to be questioned is one that can underpin many prejudices within society. So through the show we created an absurd world in which superstitions were accepted as fact and enforced; this was our riff on the often arbitrary nature of prejudice and privilege.

To go along with that we created a distinctive low-fi shadow aesthetic integrating cinematic framing devices, transformative staging and elements of illusion. We liked the idea that we could get people to buy into something whilst at the same time showing them that it wasn’t real.

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In case you’re interested Uncanny Theatre is the name that we give to the ideas that fall out of the heads of Matt Rogers and Natalie Bellingham when they get together. Typically this ‘stuff’ is made up of visually exciting comedy shenanigans about really important things, done in such a way that we’re all in on the stupidity.